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Urijah Faber is currently gearing up for his trilogy fight against Dominick Cruz on June 4th in Inglewood California at UFC 199. Faber will look to close out his rivalry with the UFC bantamweight champion almost 10 years after it started back in the WEC days. Ahead of the fight, a clip has emerged of...

There has been a bit of a rivalry between former UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell and current interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Liddell has gone on record to say that he is not a fan of Jones’ fighting style and said that he would have knocked Jones out back when he was in...

Early Wednesday morning the UFC revealed that Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier II would headline UFC 200 on July 9th. Shortly after that announcement broke, the UFC released a poster promoting the event, which is being considered the biggest event in UFC history. Aside from Jones vs. Cormier II, the event will have Nate Diaz...

The rivalry between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier heated up at UFC 197, even with Cormier out of the fight against Jones due to an injury. Cormier sat ringside doing color commentary alongside Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg for the main event UFC interim light heavyweight title fight between Jones and Ovince Saint Preux. With...

On Saturday night, former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones was able to secure the UFC interim light heavyweight title and his shot for the undisputed title against Daniel Cormier next. Jones fought a hard five-round fight against a game Ovince Saint Preux in the main event of UFC 197. The rivalry between Jones and...

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and current champion Daniel Cormier do not like each other. The two are a part of one the biggest rivalries the UFC has seen and were set to rematch this weekend at UFC 197. However, an injury sidelined Cormier and now Jones is set to face Ovince Saint...

While Miesha Tate is currently gearing up for her UFC 200 co-main event fight against Amanda Nunes, which will also serve as her first title defense, she has bigger plans in mind. Tate spoke to Fox Sports Live to explain why she has unfinished business with Ronda Rousey that she plans on finishing. “I sure...

This @LukeRockhold @ChrisWeidmanUFC rivalry is really starting to heat up. The beef is REAL, people.https://t.co/II0tueQvi8 — UFC Tonight (@UFCTonight) April 7, 2016 Earlier this week, Luke Rockhold and Chris Weidman appeared on SportsCenter for an interview that quickly became heated. During a recent appearance on UFC Tonight, Rockhold and Weidman appeared with Kenny Florian for...

On June 4th, Dominick Cruz and Urijah Faber will step into the Octagon for the third time in the co-main event of UFC 199 for Cruz’s UFC bantamweight championship. The rivalry, which goes back 10 years, has lead to many heated encounters between the two. This recent appearance on ‘The Cruz Show’ was extremely heated....

The heated rivalry between former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones and the current champion Daniel Cormier will continue on with Cormier having to pull out their title fight at UFC 197 on April 23rd. BJPENN.COM reported on Friday that Cormier had to withdraw from the title fight with Jones due to an injury suffered...

While there has been no shortage of animosity between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier during the course of their heated rivalry, even Jones doesn’t have any ill wishes for Cormier. It was revealed yesterday evening that Cormier had suffered a knee injury during training and would be unable to fight Jones in the main event...

Former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw was not very pleased when he caught wind that the UFC had booked a trilogy bout between Urijah Faber and Dominick Cruz instead of granting him an immediate rematch with “The Dominator”. The former Team Alpha Male fighter, Dillashaw, says despite his recent rivalry with Urijah he will still...

Almost missed the 9 yr anniversary @domcruz619 #rebirth #life March 7th 2007. Can't wait for #3 June 4th. I've had 22 fights since this one Thanks to all the fans that pointed this out today. This thing has been brewing for a cool minute! #ufc199 @ufc A video posted by Urijah Faber (@urijahfaber) on Mar...

Nate Diaz admits that he isn’t into many sports outside of MMA and doesn’t get starstruck very often, even at NFL Superbowl parties. However, Diaz says that was a big 49ers fan growing up in California and was always rooting for NFL legends Jerry Rice and Steve Young. In a recent interview, Diaz talks about...

We are now less than 2 months away from UFC 197, where Jon Jones will look to reclaim his UFC light heavyweight championship from Daniel Cormier, and Henry Cejudo will look to dethrone flyweight kingpin Demetrious ‘Mighty Mouse’ Johnson. Ahead of the fight, Jones and Cormier have continued their long-standing rivalry, using the ‘UFC Unstoppable’...

We are now officially less than 2 months away from UFC 197, where Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier will square off in their highly anticipated rematch for the UFC light heavyweight championship. Leading up to the fight, the pair’s rivalry has continued to boil as they both have traded verbal jabs over social media. Things...

Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey have a long standing rivalry. While most rivalries in combat sports don’t extend outside of the Octagon, Rousey and Tate’s has continued outside of the Octagon. Recently, following Rousey’s UFC 193 KO loss to Holly Holm, she revealed that she had suicidal thoughts. In the wake of Rousey’s comments, Miesha...

UFC bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz has had a long time rivalry with Urijah Faber and he has been getting an absolute kick out of all the drama surrounding Faber’s camp at Team Alpha Male. A fall out between Faber and striking coach Duane Ludwig caused a rift between fighters with the former bantamweight champion Dillashaw...

Leading up to TJ Dillashaw’s ‘UFC Fight Night: Boston’ scrap against Dominick Cruz earlier this year Cruz verbally assaulted the champ repeatedly. Dillasahw didn’t seem to have much of a response, saying that he preferred to do his talking in the fight. Ultimately, Cruz was awarded the split-decision win and awarded the title he never...

In today’s segment of “Wednesday Warriors” we feature a scrap between former National Hockey League goaltenders Chris Osgood and Patrick Roy. This epic fight occurred during the 1997-1998 season, when the rivalry between Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche was at its peak. Despite being much smaller than his opponent, Osgood was able to get...

The current UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier knows how to be honest with himself. “DC” walked into a barbershop recently and walked out ten years younger, and feels really guilty about it. Check out Cormier’s candid Instagram post highlighting his conflicting opponent that could battle him even longer than his rivalry with Jon Jones....

If your looking for some MMA action, you found it. You just wouldn’t expect it from these two kids as they put on a pretty entertaining scrap. With Dana White’s new program, -Looking for a fight- he might want to have someone keep tabs on these two, you never know what either one of these...

On February 19th, legends will collide at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Royce Gracie and Ken Shamrock will complete the final chapter of their epic rivalry. Then, Kimbo Slice and DADA 5000 will face-off in a battle years in the making. Want to watch the event live? Tickets are on sale for this Houston...

Bad blood between champion Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor was at it’s boiling point during the promotion for UFC 189. Tempers flared, belts were ripped off of tables and many words were shared between camps. Five months after the wild verbal exchanges, it’s come down to the final week. “I’m really thinking of the fight...

Ronda Rousey’s rivalry with Bethe Correia may not date as far back as Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino’s or Miesha Tate’s, but the argument could be made that it IS more personal. In the weeks leading into UFC 190 in August 2015, Correia took the trash-talk to a level most don’t when she brought up Rousey’s family,...

The rivalry between Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino and Ronda Rousey just got taken to the next level after the conclusion of “UFC 193”. Challenger Holly Holm shocked the world when she delivered a head kick to the jaw of Rousey that sent her crashing to the canvas, ending her night in the second round of the...

It happens after every single Ultimate Fighting Championship card. As soon as the main-event of “UFC Fight Night 77” wrapped up and Belfort made his way out of the octagon with his hands raised high in victory, the majority of the viewers asked themselves, “What’s next for Belfort?”. Playing matchmaker for fighters can be fun,...

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